Re: landscape mode in lilypond-book doesn't calculate line length correctly

[David Kastrup]

Reinhold Kainhofer <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2012-08-11 21:57, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Fragments may use the
>>
>> `papersize=STRING'
>>       Where STRING is a paper size defined in `scm/paper.scm' i.e.
>>       `a5', `quarto', `11x17' etc.
>>
>>       Values not defined in `scm/paper.scm' will be ignored, a warning
>>       will be posted and the snippet will be printed using the default
>>       `a4' size.
>>
>> option.  Embarrassingly, there is no way to get a4 landscape in
>> LilyPond-book right now, but a3 should do the trick I guess, at some
>> loss of performance.
>>
>> Inside of LilyPond, #(set-default-paper-size "a4" 'landscape) would
>> work.
>
> Hmm, to make life for .ly file generators easier, maybe it would be a
> good idea to additionally define paper sizes a4landscape and the
> like...

<URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2737>

And inside of LilyPond-book, #(set-default-paper-size "a4" 'landscape)
as opposed to #(set-default-paper-size "a4landscape") would also likely
cause an unwanted rotation.

-- 
David Kastrup